Ana Smith Iltis, PhD
|
Ana Smith Iltis, PhD
Associate Professor, PhD Program Director
Email: iltisas@slu.edu
|
Ana Iltis completed her PhD in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University. Her specializations include the ethics of human subjects research and organizational ethics. She is currently Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics; Associate Editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; and co-editor of the Annals of Bioethics, a book series published by Routledge. She is a member of the Saint Louis University Institutional Review Board. She regularly teaches two doctoral seminars, "Applied Methods in Health Care Ethics" and "Research Ethics." As a co-investigator on the Washington University in St. Louis Clinical and Translational Science Award, she is engaged in research ethics, education, consultation and research.
Funded Projects and Grants
“Clinical and Translational Science Award,” National Institutes of Health, Washington University in St. Louis. PI: Kenneth Polonsky, MD (Awarded September, 2007).
National Institutes of Health, "IRB Member Assessment of Decisional Capacity in Psychiatric and Medical Research" NIH Grant 1R01MH075958-01A2. PI: Raymond C. Tait, Ph.D. (Awarded Summer, 2007)
Greenwall Foundation, "Lay and Professional Attitudes toward Uncontrolled Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death: A Pilot Study." PI: James M. DuBois
Saint Louis University Summer Research Award, "Federal Interpretation and Enforcement of Protections for Vulnerable Participants in Research," Summer, 2007. Principle Investigator.
"Payments to Children and Adolescents Enrolled in Research: A Pilot Study," Beaumont Faculty Development Award, Saint Louis University. 2/1/2005-1/31/2006. $4,200. Principal Investigator.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Essays
‘Points to Consider: The relationship between research ethics consultation and institutional review boards.’ Accepted for publication in IRB: Ethics and Human Research. Authors: Laura Beskow, Christine Grady, Ana Iltis, John Sadler and Benjamin Wilfond.
‘Federal Interpretation and Enforcement of Protections for Vulnerable Participants in Human Research,’ Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2009, volume 4, number 1, pages 37-41. Co-authors: Anji Wall, Jason Lesandrini, Erica Rangel, John Chibnall.
‘The Failed Search for the Neutral in the Secular: Public Bioethics in the Face of the Culture Wars,’ accepted for publication in Christian Bioethics.
‘Organ Donation, Patients’ Rights, and Medical Responsibilities at the end of Life,’ Critical Care Medicine, 2009, volume 37, number 1, pages 310-315. Co-authors: Michael Rie and Anji Wall.
‘First Do No Harm: Critical Analyses of the Roads to Health Care Reform,’ accepted for publication in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Co-author: Mark J. Cherry.
‘Organ Donation, Patients’ Rights, and Medical Responsibilities at the end of Life,’ accepted for publication in Critical Care Medicine. Co-authors: Michael Rie and Anji Wall.
‘Assessing and Improving Research Participants’ Understanding of Risk: Potential Lessons from the Literature on Physician-Patient Risk Communication,’ The Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2008, volume 3, number 3, pages 27-37. First author: Emily E. Anderson.
‘Ethical and Practical Concerns in Developing Payment Policies for Research Involving Children and Adolescents,’ The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethic, 2008, volume 36, number 2, pages 413-418.Co-Authors: Hisako Matsuo and Shannon DeVader.
‘Payments to Normal Healthy Volunteers in Phase 1 Trials.’ (accepted for publication in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy).
"Colonizing Bioethics: A Review of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (ed.). (2006). Global Bioethics: The Collapse of Consensus." Salem, MA: M&M Scrivener Press. (accepted for publication in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy)
"Research, Development, and the Availability of Health Care Products: The Market, Regulation, and Legal Liability," The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2006, volume 40, numbers 2-3, pages 195-208.
"Pediatric Research Posing a Minor Increase Over Minimal Risk and No Prospect of Direct Benefit," Accountability in Research, 2007, volume 14, pages 19-34.
"Look Who’s Talking: Interdisciplinarity and the Implications for Bioethics Education," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2006, volume 31, number 6, pages 629-641
"On the Impermissibility of Euthanasia in Catholic Health Care Organizations," Christian Bioethics, 2006, volume 12, number 3, pages 281-290.
"Payments to Children and Adolescents Enrolled in Research: A Pilot Study," Pediatrics, 2006,volume 118, number 4, pages 1546-1552. Co-authors: Shannon Lines and Hisako Matsuo.
"Feminist Ethics Consultation: Clinical and Organizational Ethics," American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 2006, volume 5, number 2, pages 13-19.
"Lay Concepts in Informed Consent to Biomedical Research: The Capacity to Understand and Appreciate Risk," Bioethics, 2006, volume 20, number 4, pages 180-190.
"Values Based Decision Making: Organizational Mission and Integrity," HEC Forum, 2005, volume 17, number 1, pages 6-17.
"Third Party Payers and the Costs of Biomedical Research," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2005, volume 15, number 2, pages 135-161.
"Stopping Trials Early for Commercial Reasons: The Risk-Benefit Relationship as a Moral Compass," Journal of Medical Ethics, 2005, volume 31, pages 410-414.
"Professional Promises and Limits on the Scope of Practice," HEC Forum, 2005, volume 17, number 3, pages 196-209.
"Timing Invitations to Participate in Clinical Research: Preliminary versus Informed Consent," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2005, volume 30, number 1, pages 89-106.
"Costs to Subjects for Research Participation and the Informed Consent Process: Regulatory and Ethical Considerations," IRB: Ethics and Human Research, 2004, volume 26, number 6, pages 9-13.
"Scarcity in Health Care: Assessing Approaches to Resource Allocation," Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy: A European Journal, 2004, volume 7, number 2, pages 221-222.
"Placebo Controlled Trials: Restrictions, not Prohibition," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2004, volume 13, number 4, pages 380-393.
"End of Life: The Traditional Christian View," The Lancet, volume 366, pages 1045-1049. Co-author: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
"Bioethics: The Intersection of Private and Public Decisions," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2004, volume 29, number 4, pages 381-388.
"Future Directions in Organizational Ethics," Second Opinion, 2004, volume 11, April, pages 66-74.
"Understanding Moral Responsibility in the Face of Moral Pluralism," The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2003, volume 37, number 4, pages 471-479.
"A New Moral Agent: The Patient Advocate." Book Review: When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy & Research Ethics, by Rebecca Dresser. Oxford University Press, New York, 2001, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2002, volume 27, number 6, pages 699-701.
"Organizational Ethics and Institutional Integrity," HEC Forum, 2001, volume 13, number 4, pages 317-328.
"Institutional Integrity in Roman Catholic Health Care Institutions," Christian Bioethics, 2001, volume 7, number 1, pages 93-104.
Selected Edited Volumes
Pluralistic Casuistry, co-editor: Mark J. Cherry (Philalphia: Springer, 2007)
The Law and Bioethics, co-editor: Sandra Johnson (London: Routledge, to appear in 2007)
Research Ethics, editor (London: Routledge, 2006)
The Annals of Bioethics: Religious Perspectives, co-editors: Mark J. Cherry and John F. Peppin (Lisse, the Netherlands: Swets and Zeitlinger Publishers, 2004)
Institutional Integrity in Health Care, editor (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003)
Selected Contributions to Books
‘The “s” in Bioethics: Past, Present and Future,’ accepted for publication in Bioethics in the Plural: Ideology and Social Construction. Co-author: Adrienne Carpenter. (H.T. Engelhardt, Jr., ed.) (Philadelphia: Springer)
‘Ritual as the Creation of Social Reality,’ accepted for publication in Ritual, East and West: The Social Construction of Meaning. (David Solomon and P.C. Lo, eds.) (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press)
‘The Pursuit of an Efficient, Sustainable Health Care System in China,’ in Julia Tao (ed.), China: Bioethics, Trust, and the Challenge of the Market. (Philadelphia: Spring) (2009), pages 89-116.
'Harm Reduction Research: Ethics and Compliance," in Ron Green and Steven Jauss (eds.), Global Bioethics: Issues of Conscience for the Twenty-First Century. (New York: Oxford University Press) (forthcoming).
"Human Subjects Research Ethics," in Sarah Boslaugh (ed.), Encyclopedia of Epidemiology, (Sage Publications) (forthcoming).
"Risk, Responsibility, and Litigation," in H. T. Engelhardt, Jr. and J. Garrett (eds.), Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Salem, MA:M&M Scrivener, forthcoming). Co-author: Sandra Johnson.
"Bioethical Expertise in Health Care Organizations," in L.M. Rasmussen (ed.), Ethics Expertise: History, Contemporary Perspectives, and Applications, (the Netherlands: Springer, 2005), pages 259-267.
"An Assessment of the Requirements of the Study of Natural Law," in M.J. Cherry (ed.), Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethic, (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004), pages 115-122.
"Institutional Integrity in Health Care: Essential for Organizational Ethics," in A. Iltis (ed.), Institutional Integrity in Health Care, (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pages 1-6
"Organizational Ethics: Moral Obligation and Integrity," in A. Iltis (ed.), Institutional Integrity in Health Care, (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pages 175-182
"Allocation of Medical Resources," in R.G. Frey and C. Wellman (eds.), Blackwell’s Companion to Applied Ethics, (New York: Blackwell, 2003), co-author: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., pages 396-409.
"Person," in Gilbert Hottois and Jean-Noel Missa (eds.), French Encyclopedia of Bioethics, (Bruxelles: De Boeck and Larcier, 2001), co-author: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., pages 641-643.
"Principle of Beneficence," in Gilbert Hottois and Jean-Noel Missa (eds.), French Encyclopedia of Bioethics, (Bruxelles: De Boeck and Larcier, 2001), co-author: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., pages 96-97.
"Principle of Nonmaleficence," in Gilbert Hottois and Jean-Noel Missa (eds.), French Encyclopedia of Bioethics, (Bruxelles: De Boeck and Larcier, 2001), co-author: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., page 616.
"Secular Bioethics," in Gilbert Hottois and Jean-Noel Missa (eds.), French Encyclopedia of Bioethics, (Bruxelles: De Boeck and Larcier, 2001), co-author: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., pages 567-568.
Selected Edited Issues of Professional Journals
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Vulnerability in Research, 2009, volume 37, number 1
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
The Road to Health Care Reform (co-edited with Mark J. Cherry), 2008. (forthcoming)
Patient Ethics (co-edited with Lisa M. Rasmussen), 2005, volume 30, number 2
Non-Thematic, 2004, volume 29, number 4
Research Ethics, 2002, volume 27, number 5
Principlism and Casuistry, 2000, volume 25, number 3
HEC Forum
Private Sector Bioethics Consultation, 2005, volume 17, number 2
Selected Presentations
University of Notre Dame, Medical Ethics Conference, Faculty Consultant, March 27-29, 2009
Clinical Trials: Can We Protect Voluntariness and Respect the Principle of Justice? City University of Hong Kong, March 24, 2009.
Recruiting and Enrolling Our Own, University of North Carolina Charlotte, October 31, 2008.
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Research Ethics Consultation: An Emerging Role for Bioethicists (panel organizer and moderator), October 24, 2008.
University of Notre Dame, Medical Ethics Conference. Faculty Consultant. March 14-16, 2008.
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, "Organizational Ethics Issues in the Conduct of Activities Aimed at Quality Improvement, Efficiency Improvement, or Cost Containment," October 21, 2007.
University of Notre Dame, Medical Ethics Conference. Faculty Consultant. March 23-25, 2007.
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, "Payments in Pediatric Research: Ethical and Practical Considerations," October 19. 2007.
Washington University in St. Louis, "Research Outreach: Community Engagement Initiatives," February 6, 2007.
International Association of Bioethics, World Congress of Bioethics, "Religion and Health Care," August 7, 2006.
Hong Kong Baptist University, "Ritual as the Creation of Social Reality," July 6, 2006.
Loma Linda University, "Physician Assisted Suicide and the Roman Catholic Tradiation," January 26, 2006.
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, "Should Research Posing Minor Increase over Minimal Risk and No Prospect of Direct Benefit be Conducted Only on Children with the Disorder or Condition Under Investigation? Competing Conceptions of Justice," October 21, 2005. Washington, D.C.
Dartmouth University Conference on Global Bioethics, "Can Harm Reduction be an Ethical Research Goal?" October 18, 2005.
Saint Louis University, Department of Anesthesiology, "Ethics and Human Subjects Research," September 28, 2005.
City University of Hong Kong, "Physician Advertising an Quality of Care Data: Legal and Ethical Considerations," July 2, 2005.
Shandong University School of Medicine (Jinan, China), "Maintaining Institutional Moral Integrity in a Mixed Public/Private Market," June 28, 2005.
Saint Louis University, Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, "Assessing Risks and Benefits: Conceptual and Practical Problems," January 31, 2005.
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, "Trust in Medicine," October 29, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Clinical Research Coordinators of Saint Louis University, "Clinical Trial Funding: Ethical Issues," October 14, 2004.
Saint Alexius Hospital, "Ethical Issues in the Care of Children and Adolescents," August, 20, 2004.
Saint Louis University Hospital, "Resident Interaction with the Pharmaceutical Industry," April 24, 2004.
Office of Human Research Protections/Washington University School of Medicine 3004 National Human Subjects Protection Conference, "Who Should Fund Medical Research?" April 20, 2004.
Clinical Research Coordinators of Saint Louis University, The Research Nurse and the Informed Consent Process, April 1, 2004.
University of Notre Dame Medical Ethics Conference, Faculty Consultant, March 19-21, 2004.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Conference on Ethics Consultation, "Assessing Conflicts among Consultants’, Clinicians’, Patients’, and Organizations’ Values in Ethics Consultation," April 4, 2003.
University of Notre Dame Medical Ethics Conference, Faculty Consultant and Panelist for discussion on Genetic Testing in Minors and for discussion on Artificial Reproductive Technologies, March 21-23, 2003.
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, "Research and Organizational Ethics: The Obligations of IRBs with Respect to Protecting Non-English Speaking Subjects’ Rights to Informed Consent," February 28, 2003.
University of Notre Dame, The Culture of Life: "Research Ethics and Catholic Healthcare Organizations," September 27, 2002.
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics: "Business Ethics and Health Care Ethics: The Emergence of Organizational Ethics," March 1, 2002.
Professional Memberships
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Association of Practical and Professional Ethics
American Philosophical Association
Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, inducted April, 1995
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Early Career Scholars Award
Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics
Mailing Address: Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics
221 North Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103-2006
Campus address: O'Brien Hall, Frost Campus
Telephone: (314) 977-6661
Fax: (314) 977-5150
